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A House Is Not A Motel

Love
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
{section: Intro}
[12-string acoustic, 4X; bass enters 3rd time]
{sot} ----0---0-----------0---0--3---|
-0----3----3----0-----3--------|
-------------------------------|
--2---------------2------------|
-------------------------------|
-------------------------------|{eot}
{section: Verse 1}
[repeat intro pattern 2X]
{section: Verse 2}
You are just a thought that someone
Somewhere somehow feels you should be here
And it's so for real to touch
To smell, to feel, to know where you are here
And the streets are paved with gold and if
Someone asks you, you can call my name
You can call my name
{section: Solo}
[repeat intro]
{section: Verse 3}
By the time that I'm through singing
The bells from the schools of walls will be ringing
More confusions, blood transfusions
The news today will be the movies for tomorrow
And the water's turned to blood, and if
You don't think so
Go turn on your tub
And it it's mixed with mud
You'll see it turn to gray
And you can call my name
I hear you call my name
{section: Coda}
[drum break]
[multiple overdubbed guitar solos over Em; original release cuts off
abruptly, reissues fade out]
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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Arrangement source for A House Is Not A Motel by Love

{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
{section: Intro}
[12-string acoustic, 4X; bass enters 3rd time]

{sot}        ----0---0-----------0---0--3---|
        -0----3----3----0-----3--------|
        -------------------------------|
        --2---------------2------------|
        -------------------------------|
        -------------------------------|{eot}

{section: Verse 1}
        [Em]At my house I've g[G]ot no shackles
        [Am]You can come and lo[C]ok if you want to
        [Em]In the halls you'll s[G]ee the mantles
        [Am]Where the light shines d[C]im all around you
        [Am]And the streets are p[D]aved with gold and if
        [Am]Someone asks you, [D]  you can call my n[Em]ame

[repeat intro pattern 2X]

{section: Verse 2}
        You are just a thought that someone
        Somewhere somehow feels you should be here
        And it's so for real to touch
        To smell, to feel, to know where you are here
        And the streets are paved with gold and if
        Someone asks you, you can call my name
        You can call my name
        I hear you calling my [Em]name  [C]yeah[Am]    a[D]ll right now

{section: Solo}
        [Em]/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /
        [Em]/ / / /  [C]/ / / /  [Am]/ / / /  [D]/ / / /
        [Em]/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /
        [D]/ / / /  [C]/ / / /  [G]/ / / /  [A]/ / / /  [Em]/

[repeat intro]

{section: Verse 3}
        By the time that I'm through singing
        The bells from the schools of walls will be ringing
        More confusions, blood transfusions
        The news today will be the movies for tomorrow
        And the water's turned to blood, and if
        You don't think so
        Go turn on your tub
        And it it's mixed with mud
        You'll see it turn to gray
        And you can call my name
        I hear you call my name

{section: Coda}
[drum break]

[multiple overdubbed guitar solos over Em; original release cuts off
 abruptly, reissues fade out]

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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